JOB: UX Designer at Puppet Labs

[Katherine Gray]

Hello!

Puppet Labs is hiring a UX Designer. I can't say enough about how
fantastic this company is. I joined full-time this month after
contracting for almost a year. Everyone at Puppet is brilliant, fun,
hardworking, and the culture is incredibly supportive.

If you're interested tell them Katherine Gray sent you (I'll take you
to lunch if you get hired :)

UX Designer
Department: Development
Reports to: Director of User Experience
Location: Portland, OR
Summary of Role

Puppet Labs is hiring a User Experience Designer who loves to create,
understands their tools, and thrives on responsibility in a fast-paced
team. You must have empathy, display attention to detail, and iterate
fast based on critical feedback from colleagues and users.
Interaction design for browser-based applications will be the core of
your job.

You'll also have a chance to make a big difference in the graphic
design of our products. We have design vernaculars for existing
products, but they're not unified, nor of the quality (clear,
simple, and professional) they should be.

Front-end engineering skills are essential: we wouldn't hire an
architect who couldn't drive a nail. You will be a full citizen
of our software engineering team and will need to work and communicate
well within it. You will be responsible for implementing some of your
design, depending on the needs of the team.
Qualifications
Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a UX role focusing on both
interaction and graphic design for browser-based applications.
Right-fidelity design and prototyping, from cocktail napkin sketch to
interactive application.
Understanding of front-end engineering, including strong JavaScript,
HTML, CSS and Unix command line.
Demonstrated exceptional attention to user-facing details.
Experience working with developers on agile or similar teams.
Preferred but not required:
Familiarity with Ruby on Rails.
Experience as a SysAdmin or Developer a plus.
Strong knowledge of browser capabilities.
Application Details
With your online application, please include a cover letter and a link
to your online portfolio. In your cover letter, please describe why
you are interested in working for Puppet Labs, and address how your
experience matches each of the listed qualifications for the role.
Working for Puppet Labs

Based in Portland, Oregon, we’re democratizing IT, making it
easier to use your computers rather than having to spend so much time
managing them. We’re an enterprise software company with a
consumer sales model, a passionate, worldwide user base, and the
conviction that open source infrastructure is the way forward.
Everyone who works here has real, direct impact on the company, and
our list of interesting and difficult problems will always be larger
than the time we have to tackle them. Our work environment is relaxed
yet results driven, encouraging creativity, collaboration, and
challenging each other in order to foster continuous improvement. Our
employees embody our values, displaying curiosity, self-motivation,
adaptability, and a passion for what Puppet is all about.